Hillbilly Report

SiCKO News Conference, Fri. June 29, 11:00 AM, Baxter Theater.

Hillbilly Report
Glendale, Kentucky
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June 27, 2007
The Kentucky Chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP-KY) and Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care (KSPH) will hold a news conference to welcome Michael Moore’s “SiCKO” to Louisville and to kick off a movement for genuine reform to heal our broken health care system.
Nurses and other health care professionals will attend the news conference in their scrubs and lab coats.  The news conference is set for the opening day of SiCKO:
Friday, June 29, 2007
11:00 AM In front of the Baxter Avenue Theaters (Baxter Avenue at Goddard, Baxter Avenue side of the Mid City Mall)
Speakers will include community officials, health care leaders, physicians, nurses, medical students, and a cross section of the Louisville community.
Participants in the news conference will urge everyone to see this remarkable documentary and will explain the only cure for our "sicko" health system, single-payer national health insurance as embodied in HR 676, introduced by Congressman John Conyers (D-MI).  HR 676 is co-sponsored by 74 house members including Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY).
HR 676 would cover every person in the U. S. for all necessary medical care including prescription drugs, hospital, surgical, outpatient services, primary and preventive care, emergency services, dental, mental health, home health, physical therapy, rehabilitation (including for substance abuse), vision care, chiropractic and long term care.  HR 676 ends deductibles and co-payments.  HR 676 would save billions annually by eliminating the high overhead and profits of the private health insurance industry and HMOs.
HR 676 would make health care a human right in the United States

Will The Movie “Sicko” Be Shown At The Movie Palace, In Elizabethtown, Kentucky? “Sicko” Youtube Trailer.

Hillbilly Report
Glendale, Kentucky
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June 25, 2007
Every sneak preview of 'SiCKO' Saturday night a complete sell out!
I hope The Movie Palace, in Elizabethtown, Ky. will show “Sicko”, but I’m not holding my breath. According to The Hardin County News Enterprise, The Movie Palace didn’t show Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11". The owner or owners of The Movie Palace have the right to show or not show any movie they please and I have the right to go to any theater I please. I haven’t been to The Movie Palace in a long time, but I will be there if “Sicko” is showing.
If the owners of The Movie Palace exercise their right not to show “Sicko” I will exercise my rights and continue my avoidance of The Movie Palace, in Elizabethtown, Ky.
There are those that believe Michael Moore's new movie "Sicko" is left-wing propaganda, but consider this: The prestigious Institute of Medicine of the National Academies agrees with the filmmaker, who says U.S. citizens need universal health-care coverage. In a series of reports, the IOM, an independent, non-governmental advisory organization, last week called for President Bush and Congress to extend health insurance to all Americans by 2010.
View the trailer below.

Michael Moore In Trouble For Cuba Trip

Hillbilly Report
Glendale, Kentucky
May 10, 2007
Go To Original (AP)
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore is under investigation by the U.S. Treasury Department for taking ailing Sept. 11 rescue workers to Cuba for a segment in his upcoming health-care documentary "Sicko," The Associated Press has learned.
The investigation provides another contentious lead-in for a provocative film by Moore, a fierce critic of President Bush. In the past, Moore's adversaries have fanned publicity that helped the filmmaker create a new brand of opinionated blockbuster documentary.
"Sicko" promises to take the health-care industry to task the way Moore confronted America's passion for guns in "Bowling for Columbine" and skewered Bush over his handling of Sept. 11 in "Fahrenheit 9/11."
The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control notified Moore in a letter dated May 2 that it was conducting a civil investigation for possible violations of the U.S. trade embargo restricting travel to Cuba. A copy of the letter was obtained Tuesday by the AP.
"This office has no record that a specific license was issued authorizing you to engage in travel-related transactions involving Cuba," Dale Thompson, OFAC chief of general investigations and field operations, wrote in the letter to Moore.